Stop Co-Opting Black Female Oppression to Elevate 'Transwomen' Athletes.
Within the past week, a cultural uproar has emerged around the fight between Olympic boxers, Imane Khelif and Angela Carini, who competed against each other in the female division.
Less than one minute into their first match, Angela chose to end the fight because Imane’s blows to her body were too powerful. She knew from the jump that this would be an unfair match, and that she would be risking her safety and dignity for a fight that she was only bound to lose. Angela took a devastating loss, and Imane was instantly crowned the victor.
Since then, I’ve witnessed several conversations floating around online about how Imane Khelif was born female, has a vagina, and doesn’t identify as trans, so “she” is a woman. Therefore, Angela and her supporters are just being sore losers.
Angela simply didn’t train hard enough, and that was the reason why she lost and cried about it on her knees in front of everybody like a “little bitch”.
What Imane’s ‘woke’ supporters conveniently ignored and omitted is the fact that Imane is, in fact, a genetic male with XY chromosomes, and is therefore blessed with a natural physical advantage over female athletes, just like any other man.
The issue here is that Imane was never meant to compete against Angela in the first place, because he is not a woman. He is an intersex man.
Call it what you like, the match was unfair.
But what is really upsetting me is how many of these same people have begun to claim that Imane Khelif is only thought of as male due to racism.
Apparently, they are using the argument that Imane is only viewed as male because he does not fit the Eurocentric beauty standard that women are held to.
Suddenly, it’s “Oh…so a woman can’t be muscular? A woman has to be white?”
Following in the legacy of other “Women of Color” athletes who have been speculated to be male due to their natural physical features, muscular build, and flawless performance, Imane Khelif is touted as yet another victim of ‘white supremacist patriarchy’.
They just can’t let us “Women of Color” be great, can they?
First of all, let’s be Crystal Clear: The media’s rampant masculinization of “women of color” athletes happens exclusively to black women.
The most prominent examples of this phenomenon are Venus and Serena Williams. These sisters went through intense scrutiny over their biological sex in the media because of their athletic build and Afrocentric features, which, through a racist and misogynist lens, are perceived as unfeminine.
The Williams’ Sisters were called monkeys, publicly humiliated, and consistently compared to non-human animals, because of their distinctly African features.
So the reason why this argument about Imane Khelif being viewed as male due to “racism and sexism” upsets me is because it’s the most glaring example of how trans rights activists piggy-back on the struggles of historically marginalized groups in order to boost their own agenda. In this case, that group is black women.
Comparing the media’s masculinization of black female athletes to Imane Khelif’s genetic maleness is utterly disrespectful.
Y’all are force-teaming a light-skinned arabic male with dark-skinned Black American women who experience colorism and misogynoir, as if we’re in the same boat.
Get the fuck out of here with that!!
The “women of color” you are comparing Imane Khelif to are all black female athletes who have XX chromosomes and female anatomy, some of whom later gave birth to their own children. These are black women, who worked their asses off and devoted their lives to compete against female athletes of their calibre.
The public may speculate and think Serena Williams looks like a man, but the fact is that she is not male, by any biological standard. Her femaleness is not up for debate, and it’s not dictated by people’s opinions.
The harassment Serena received was about her looks, and the media’s racist and sexist gaze on her body—not her actual biological sex. The same cannot be said about Imane.
Stop co-opting our struggle.
These are the same black women who would easily lose in a match against an Olympic male athlete.
Serena Williams said it herself that she would lose against a man in a heartbeat, and Serena is the GOAT.
Once again, this is a classic example of trans activists comparing black women to men, instrumentalizing our pain for their gain, pushing our bodies to the frontlines of their battle, and acting like everyone else is racist for simply acknowledging reality.
It is a classic form of gaslighting.
Trans activists don’t have any real historical oppression to stake their claim for “trans rights”—so they latch onto ours. They desperately latch onto any group’s well-known legacy of oppression and hard-won civil rights to create a false narrative of being “for the people”, when the only people who benefit from their “activism” are the most privileged men in society.
Meanwhile, y’all are quietly throwing black women under the bus, mixing us in the same oppression soup with grown-ass brolic men who hate us, which of course legally translates to us being thrown to the wolves in prison cells with them, too.
Black Lives Matter!!!
And then you claim that if we are in danger, and if we can’t fend for ourselves against them—it’s because they are stronger women than we are?
Fuck out of here.
Sports are one arena of life that is intentionally designed to be fair.
It’s not fair-play to have someone competing in a sex-based division when they have unfair advantages due to their biological sex, or due to the usage of synthetic hormones.
In a sex-based division, all competitors should be the same sex, and have all the genetic elements that qualify someone who normally belongs to that sex.
This is common sense.
Sex-based division is based on biology. It is nothing personal, and it’s not about feelings!
If you are an outlier in this regard, then perhaps you should create your own division to compete with others like you.
But No. Instead, they place a woman in a ring with a male who represents .018% of the human population, to make her into a fucking circus show for the culture.
It’s very clear that this was all orchestrated for public entertainment, at Angela’s expense.
And trans activists are, once again, using this fight as an example to drive home their message about “white supremacy”…but it is not hitting the way they think.
If anything, it’s showing how racist the trans movement really is.
Once again, Nevlynnn, you hit the nail on the head, bang on!
After seeing the end of that boxing match I literally started to cry. Watching Angela break down into tears felt like an iconic moment in trans ideology's colonisation of women's spaces, activities and identities. I don't know what's worse: the injustice of a man fighting in a women's event, the disgust of seeing a man belt the sh*t out of a woman, or the reaction of trans ideologues defending both and using racism to attempt to bolster their indefensible positions.
The most terrifying thing about wokism is that it creates hierarchies of humanity and those at the top are more worthy of sympathy, compassion, and understanding, than those beneath them. Men claiming to be women occupy the penthouse suite of this hierarchy, and anyone who questions their delusional beliefs gets shoved to the basement.
That includes black people. Your needs, your history, your ongoing struggles are nothing in comparison to teh desires of men pretending to be women and colonising women's spaces. But take heart if you can in the fact that you're not alone. There are only two stories and a basement in this structural hierarchy. On top are the men in lipstick, next are those who support them, and in the basement is everyone else. And it doesn't matter how oppressed you actually are.
Trans ideology is not a movement of material reality. It's a movement of belief. What determines your position in the hierarchy isn't what you do or what you struggle against, but what you think. To echo J K Rowling, there used to be a word for that. Authorism? Auto-arianism? Oh yeah, authoritarianism!
Totally agree with what you’re saying. I remember this sort of weaponisation around Caster Semenya where people would say: “so you’re saying all black women are men/look like men.”.
No….the very reason Semenya is singled out is specifically because black women do look like women and we can see with our own eyes when someone is not. There's a reason why the man with a dsd got the scrutiny he got and not other black female athletes.
On top of that, we have proof of Semenya’s DSD condition and admission from himself that he has testicles and that apparently doesn’t make him: “any less of a woman” (his words). And still people’s only response is: “you think all black women look like men!”.
Although Simone Biles, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, Athing Mu, Christine Ohuruogu, Alycia Parks and others will receive racist and misogynistic abuse online, their biological sex is not seriously scrutinised like Semenya because they are female and we can all see that. This trans/dsd conversation always seems to be a convenient way to shoehorn in this idea that black women are not feminine, when in fact we are not even talking about black women.
Their own racism, as you said, is showing.